OT: The Semi-Annual, Taste Optional Music Thread: Post Your Mid-Winter Blues Music

[tom_servo]

I got BORIS tix

 

[HandshakeLine]

I got BORIS tix

DOPE.

Bring the earplugs though, they LOUD.

 

[Andy99]

At LCD Soundsystem now waiting for them to take the stage…opening song better be Us v Them… have ear plugs…close enough to the stage to see James sweat

 

[tom_servo]

DOPE.

Bring the earplugs though, they LOUD.

Thanks, I do usually bring em. I've been to some loud shows like Sunn 0)), My Bloody Valentine, Sleep, J Mascis. None of them were that bad in the rooms I was in but I gotta be careful in my advancing age.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Boris and Sunn O))) were pretty much neck and neck for me.

 

[Deport Ogie]

In Flames playing Jergal's next month. IF is long past a band I would go too far to see but I'm within 10 minutes of Jergal's so it may be worth a swing-by.

 

[Factorial]

Billy Bragg still bringing the ballads for the people:

 

[dogthateats]

 

[Factorial]

 

[Factorial]

My new alarm:

 

[dogthateats]

 

[pistolpete11]

I've been watching No Direction Home on Netflix and it's got me on a folk-Dylan bender.



I've always preferred 'electric-Dylan', but A Hard Rain and Freewheelin' more generally rank right up there with the best of the best Dylan IMO.

 

[HandshakeLine]

A few weeks ago I stumbled on a mono reissue of Dylan's very first album, the pure folksinger one, and it's surprisingly good.

 

[pistolpete11]

A few weeks ago I stumbled on a mono reissue of Dylan's very first album, the pure folksinger one, and it's surprisingly good.

Always liked Freight Train Blues, but yeah there's some good songs on there.

Still, the jump from that to Freewheelin' is incredible.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Always liked Freight Train Blues, but yeah there's some good songs on there.

Still, the jump from that to Freewheelin' is incredible.

Oh yeah, it’s crazy how much he grew as an artist between those two. He goes from trying to be a Hoyt Axton/Dave Van Ronk clone to his own distinct thing so quickly.

 

[Factorial]

I saw that it was National Banana Split Day.

Some really good session players on here and the singer went to be part of Zappa's band.

 

[Factorial]

A few years later.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Sometimes you just need to pour yourself some brown liquor and listen to a tragic figure sing an old heartbreaker

 

[dogthateats]

Sometimes you just need to pour yourself some brown liquor and listen to a tragic figure sing an old heartbreaker

I listened to that album the other night. The day I posted the Johnny Paycheck video

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I listened to that album the other night. The day I posted the Johnny Paycheck video

Hell yeah.

I'm actually listening to it on the turntable on an old country compilation record I have but I had to share.

 

[HandshakeLine]

You want some weird country? Have a Czech John Denver cover from the height of communist repression! I hear this song on the radio pretty much daily.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Whoa. That's especially weird to me. As you can imagine I've heard the original like eleventy billion times.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Whoa. That's especially weird to me. As you can imagine I've heard the original like eleventy billion times.

Yeah, Czechs and Slovaks went through a really fascinating love affair with American country & western music, cowboy films, and camping in the 20th century. Still pretty popular here all things considered but only old school country, none of this Walmart country mega church horsheshit.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Yeah, Czechs and Slovaks went through a really fascinating love affair with American country & western music, cowboy films, and camping in the 20th century. Still pretty popular here all things considered but only old school country, none of this Walmart country mega church horsheshit.

I'd rather shove red-hot pokers in both ears than listen to any country made from basically the late 80s onward. As soon as ol Garth poisoned the well for good it was all over. But old country? *chef's kiss*

 

[HandshakeLine]

Have a gander at this absolutely insane version of the old Bobby Bare standby, then my friend: